Jipsah
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Well, as it happens, I found a source for reading at least one of them for free, as I didn't want a red cent of my hard-earned money going to a grifter. Dude showed his fraudulent colors right out the gate.
Mr. Henrie begins his screed with an obligatory denunciation of the US government, which is apparently completely run by knowing or unknowing Satanists. I skimmed over it since I'd heard that sort of thing a good many times before. After about a half dozen pages or so, he got down to business.
The headline was: Samuel Rowbotham Proved The Earth Was Flat. Then follows a breathless account of Mr. Rowbotham,, and what would be the first of what came to be called "The Bedford Level Experiment". Mr, Rowbotham's intent was o demonstrate that the earth was flat. To make a fairly long story more manageable, here's my summary. In 1838, Mr. R had set up shop on the Old Bedford river in England, on a long, narrow stretch of that stream, to conduct his experiment. Short form, he did his experiment with all due dilligence, and the result seemed to confirm that, at least for that stretch of river, the earth seemed to be flat. Mr. Rowbotham published his findings in a book, which excited little interest and was quickly forgotten. That's as far as Mr.Henrie follows it before declaring a victory and moving on.
But the story didn't end there. In 1870, a surveyor named Arthur Russel Wallace accepted a wager designed to show that Mr. Rowbotham had made mistanes in his observations that an experienced surveyor would not have made, and that his observations had been in error. Mr.Wallace set up his observations as a surveyor would have, and found that the results were precisely those to be expected if the world was a globe. Over several years afterward, a number of people repeated similar experiments, each time with improved instruments, with all reaching results that agreed with Mr. Wallace's conclusions.
The problem here is that Mr. Henrie only sees fit to tell us about Mr.Rowbotham's "successful" experiment, very conveniently omitting the later ones that found their results consistent with a spherical earth. The big problem here is that Mr.Henrie somehow fails to tell us, deliberately, it would seem, about the later experiments that produced completely different results! that, THis appearsd to be a clumsy attempt to create the impression the Mr. Rowbotham's test results had stood unchallenged, when in fact no one else ever duplicated them.
That's sufficient for me to classify Mr.Henrie, for my own purposes anyway, as a fraud and a grifter. He has a product to peddle, and he's not gonna let the truth stand in the way of separating another sucker from their money.
Now, did I read the rest of the book? No, I didn't. I don't have to let someone try to sell me the Washington Monument for a second time to know that they're a swindler. But I consider "A fool and his money are soon parted" to be axiomatic, so if y'all want to mortgage the ranch and send it all to him, go for it. To quote Poor Richard again: "Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other."
I'm sure that Mr. Henrie deals with them in the same mendacious manner.
If your definition of "scientific" means "full of abject lies".
Oh, except the very first one in the wretched book! But I'm sure the rest are monuments to scientific rigor.
Oh, I have no interest in it going away. I think it's as good an example of shameless fleecing of the flock as anything I've seen that wasn't by Tom Horn.
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